The Rhetoric of Risk: Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments

Waddell, Craig; Sauer, Beverly A.

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“…These competing narratives will eventually need to reach convergence so the public can test the information validity (Anthony & Sellnow, 2016;Anthony et al, 2013;Sellnow et al, 2008). Warning message literature has expanded informationseeking processes by evaluating the public response to warning messages (Mileti & O'Brien, 1992;Mileti & Peek, 2000;Sellnow et al, 2008) and the warning message design (Laughery et al, 2002;Mileti & Sorensen, 1990;Sauer, 2003;Sellnow et al, 2008).…”

Section: Risk Perception and Messagingmentioning

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Human or Machine? How Much Difference in Understanding and Trust Does a Human Element Make in Storm Forecasts?

2023

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The past two Atlantic hurricane seasons have been among the most active in history. In the hurricane-prone southeast, broadcast meteorologists and emergency managers want their communities to both understand and trust the severe weather alerts they send out. This study examined how college students, a vulnerable population, view those messages. Results show students believed they understood, and actually did understand, messages with both human and graphics more than human only or graphics only. The human-graphics combination was also the most trusted of the three options. These findings suggest that not only is the human element important in emergency messages but students are also seeking out local television and meteorologists for their weather information more than the internet.

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Section: Risk Perception and Messagingmentioning

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Human or Machine? How Much Difference in Understanding and Trust Does a Human Element Make in Storm Forecasts?

2023

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“…The notion that risk communication targeted to nonexperts should attend to this level of complexity is not novel in TPC (see, e.g., Ding, 2009Ding, , 2014Frost, 2012;Grabill & Simmons, 1998;Sauer, 2002;Smith & Kain, 2010). Neither is the idea that nonexperts-such as travel medicine clinicians and their patients, as I have discussed in this article-are active users of visual risk information.…”

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Wicked Problems in Risk Assessment: Mapping Yellow Fever and Constructing Risk as an Embodied Experience

Welhausen

2023

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

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In this article, the author theorizes the process that a World Health Organization work group used to update yellow fever risk maps published in the Yellow Book, a handbook created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for international travelers, from a “wicked problems” perspective. She argues that using this model highlights the complexity of nonexperts’ risk assessment practices in this context and that the work group's decision to create vaccination maps demonstrates an increased awareness of the embodied decision-making practices that nonexperts perform, aligning with and contributing to the growing emphasis on creating user-centered risk information that can be seen in some risk communication.

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The Rhetoric of Risk: Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments

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Human or Machine? How Much Difference in Understanding and Trust Does a Human Element Make in Storm Forecasts?

Human or Machine? How Much Difference in Understanding and Trust Does a Human Element Make in Storm Forecasts?

Wicked Problems in Risk Assessment: Mapping Yellow Fever and Constructing Risk as an Embodied Experience

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